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Revirginize your bricked iPhone


For those of you who are stuck with a very expensive break because you violated it’s “chastity firmware” we have good news. The team known only as iPhone Elite have released a program over at Google code that allows you to restore your iPhone to it’s “virgin” state, as if it had just come from […]

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Gimp 2.4.0 released

While Adobe stretches the Photoshop brand into many different programs, the popular open-source alternative: GIMP, continues to catch up to the features of the world’s best image editing tool.

Despite only having a decimal increase, the developers could have very well called this new version of Gimp 3.0, and no one would complain. Not only does […]

Filed under: News, Open Source

Sony announces Cybershot T2

Sony’s Cybershot cameras have always been one of the company’s best assets, and in terms of style, and image quality, they are considered one of the best manufacturers of small-form digital cameras (their Alpha cameras aren’t too shabby either).
This latest camera seems to have received an minimalistic treatment, and Sony striped the camera out of […]

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New Cellphone LCD with 2000:1 contrast ratio

You know you really have to upgrade your computer’s monitor when a cellphone screen has a better contrast ratio than it. And apparently that’s the message that Sharp is giving out with this latest QVGA resolution LCD.

This LCD is 2.2″ which is slightly bigger than the new iPod Nano’s screen, which means that it’s actually […]

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Motorola releases H357 and H680 bluetooth headsets

Motorola has recently introduced two new bluetooth headsets on the market with specific targets: one is made for women, while the other is supposed to be used by bluetooth headset newbies – the gender doesn’t matter on this one.

Named H357 and priced at only $40, this Motorola headset is the one made for newbies. It […]

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Acer P243W - 24-inch LCD monitor at an affordable price

I don’t know about you, but for me, having a 24-inch LCD monitor is still a luxury that I can’t afford. So when Acer comes out with the P243W LCD monitor at $457, it brings a smile to my face because it isn’t as expensive as I thought it would be.

The new Acer monitor has […]

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AlarmWear - Personal Alarm Clothing

The next time you feel you’re in danger in the middle of the street, instead of running or just getting robbed, use the Alarm Jacket - with a touch of a button it sounds a loud alarm at 125 db. That is probably more decibels than you need, but it is always better to be […]

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Flickr and Picnik get together

Flickr - the most famous photo sharing website in the world, and Picnik - a not so popular online image editor tool, have reached an agreement to work together and come up with a way to edit photos on Flickr.

Currently there is only one editing function available, which is to rotate the image, but in […]

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Sharp announces a Gundam-themed phone

If you’re an Anime fan, then you probably know that there’s a new Gundam Anime playing on the Japanese television. But Sharp decided to take the show one step further, and bring it to your pocket with a Gundam themed Zaku II mobile phone.

The phone is that small thing at the bottom left, the opened […]

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Samsung announces new 5 Megapixel slider

While some companies try to successes of others, Samsung intends to continue putting the best specifications that are physically possible in the thinnest handsets. This latest handset is no different, and it packs a camera that can take pictures with as many megapixels as my standalone digital camera, and even has optical zoom.
A Megapixel is […]

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2 days and 3 nights with Ubuntu 7.10

When the previous version of Ubuntu came out, I was one of the very first to jump aboard and try it out. After the initial “wow, XP can’t do this” reactions (similar to the reaction I had when I first booted Vista), like Vista, I began to see that not all was good, and I […]

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Ubuntu 7.10 officially released

When I say officially in the topic, I don’t mean to say that it hasn’t been available earlier for those who like to interact with the whole Ubuntu community, similar to when people, such as me, were downloading new Firefox versions a day or two before any public statement was made.

This new version comes with […]

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In a desperate move made by China, the internet cops (image) working for the government decided to redirect all the Chinese traffic coming from Google Blog Search, Yahoo, Microsoft Live, and YouTube, to a (censored) Chinese search engine called Baidu.
It is not the first time that China blocks specific sites, and I bet it won’t […]

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The Ultimate Mech Simulator

Those lucky folks over at Akihabaranews recently went to an arcade to try out Banpresto’s latest masterpiece: Senjo no Kizuna.
The game is played inside a cocoon-like station where you have access to two joysticks and pedals which control your mech robot’s functions and the game is played online with other people throughout Japan. Although it’s […]

Filed under: Games

All Daily Show episodes online

In a good move made by Viacom, all the Daily Show episodes are online at their official website - www.thedailyshow.com. From 1999 to today, you can now view 7,128 short clips (not entire episode) of the comic show. Fortunately, the content is updated daily, so the 7k number will rise.

Obviously, there is some kind of […]

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Apple might have fired greedy employees

One of the nicest things that Apple did for it’s employees was to award every one of them with a free iPhone, as long as they had been with the company for over a year, even part-timers. But it seems that some of those lucky employees let greed take the best of them, and decided […]

Filed under: Apple
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